Microsoft’s Satya Nadella was the highest-paid media CEO in 2024.
Public paperwork present Nadella’s whole compensation—together with wage, bonuses, fairness awards, and different compensation—amounted to $79.1 million for 2024.
The determine is almost 5 occasions greater than what the median CEO who runs an organization listed within the S&P 500 obtained throughout the identical interval, in accordance with govt intelligence agency Equilar. The median wage is $16.4 million.
Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner, together with Netflix’s co-chief govt officers, Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, additionally earned sums north of $60 million, nicely above the common for leaders in comparable roles.
When evaluating CEO compensation to the everyday employee’s earnings, Disney’s Bob Iger completed the 12 months with the most important hole.
In 2024, Iger earned 746 occasions the median Disney worker wage.
Prepare dinner, Nadella, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav additionally appeared excessive on the listing.
Extra figures from Equilar present the median pay ratio between S&P 500 CEOs and their staff final 12 months was 197:1.
To generate these findings, Equilar analyzed the filings of U.S. publicly traded firms required to reveal their CEO’s annual compensation and the way it compares to their median worker’s whole revenue. Figures don’t embody beforehand acquired fairness holdings.
In 2023, Prepare dinner topped the media CEO earnings listing, bringing in $63.2 million with a CEO-to-employee pay ratio of 672:1.
